Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple dowry basket Nouveau Realism in France and

Nouveau Realism in France and AbEx and then Pop Art in New York were most of the attention of the era went

and researching them enough to have a general sense of what they are

--to begin with

which seems exactly right: "bull_" might characterize a lot about our times

and appears to be studying the engraved decoration around the edges of the matchbox holder upon which he sits

Large Carved and Painted Penguins - A Couple dowry basket Nouveau Realism in France andI thought about selling these two individually, but as I photographed them realized they really are a couple (he's taller, she's wider) so thought best to keep them together, including for the fact that they're plenty large and heavy to function as bookends (or doorstops for that matter; they're 2+ lbs each.) I purchased them from a seller who found them at an estate sale in Alabama but don't know who made them; they're carved of solid wood, thickly